I have a Lite-On 12x-10x-32x cd-rw drive. The drive is recognized in windows xp and the drive reads any recorded media placed into it. However it quit reading blanks and shows disc full in properties when ever a blank is inserted and checked for caoacity.Updated firmware once last year and never did anything else to the drive. Is there some debug program that I can use to revert the drive so that it can not only read but write blanks. I'm desperate.
Thanks in advance...
Archie

???? Reading blank disks serves what purpose? The Window XP os provided it's own burning features including the ability to recongize that a blank disk has been inserted into the drive. It will not "read" a blank however, because there is nothing to read on a "BLANK" disk. I'm assuming (you didn't say) that your using the recording feature included with XP. When the recording program is launched and just before the command is issued to "burn", Windows XP will check the disk to see if it's the correct media and contains adequate space to record the data you choose to write to it. If the recording program detects any problem, then you may get different errors depending on what the actual error or problem is. Other problems that cause recording failure are other running programs like screen savers, anti-virus software, disk management programs, etc. I will say this..... Windows XP built-in recording feature is not the best recording program available. In fact it's about the worse recording software I've ever had occasion to use. Nero, Easy Cd Creator, and NTI Cd Maker are my favorite burning applications... they work much better than the XP program does and result in less coasters.

For additional instructions on using the built-in recording feature that Microsoft included with Windows XP, please read the webpage link below:

http://tools.supportforyourpc.com/get_article.asp?aid=913

or read the many help pages that Microsoft has posted on their website and also includes in the HELP section of Windows XP.
Have a nice day! :)